The Crosier and the Scepter

In this staff lay spiritually Eliseus's mission and power. It was, as it were, his arm, the prolongation of his arm. And here I saw the interior signification and power of a Bishop's crosier and a monarch's scepter. If used with faith, they unite both Bishop and monarch in a certain way with Him from whom they hold their dignity, with God, marking them out at the same time as distinct from all others. 

---(Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Complete Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, p.11)